Re: [RFC PATCH v1 6/9] MIPS: perf: percpu_devid interrupt support

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Oct 19 2017 - 10:12:27 EST


On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Paul Burton wrote:
>
> +static struct irqaction c0_perf_irqaction = {
> + .handler = mipsxx_pmu_handle_irq,
> + .flags = IRQF_PERCPU | IRQF_TIMER | IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_NOAUTOEN,
> + .name = "mips_perf_pmu",
> + .percpu_dev_id = &mipspmu,
> +};
> +
> static int mipspmu_get_irq(void)
> {
> - int err;
> + if (irq_is_percpu_devid(mipspmu.irq))
> + return setup_percpu_irq(mipspmu.irq, &c0_perf_irqaction);
>
> - err = request_irq(mipspmu.irq, mipsxx_pmu_handle_irq,
> - IRQF_PERCPU | IRQF_NOBALANCING |
> - IRQF_NO_THREAD | IRQF_NO_SUSPEND |
> - IRQF_SHARED,
> - "mips_perf_pmu", &mipspmu);
> - if (err)
> - pr_warn("Unable to request IRQ%d for MIPS performance counters!\n",
> - mipspmu.irq);
> - return err;
> + return setup_irq(mipspmu.irq, &c0_perf_irqaction);

request_irq() is really preferred over setup_irq(). setup_irq() exists for
historical reasons because back in the days the allocators were not working
when early interrupts got initialized. Today that's a non issue, but I
never got around to remove the setup_irq() cruft.

Thanks,

tglx